Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Small employers are clueless about Obamacare
By Staff WriterPPACA has not done much to make navigating the health care arena; enter insurance agents.
March 25, 2013
Looking for evidence that therapy worksIt seems even mental health treatments are not free of doctor bias.
March 25, 2013
Disability insurance: America’s secret $124 billion welfare programTheres not necessarily more disabled people, it just got easier to qualify for it.
March 25, 2013
Senate committee passes bill to end ban on HIV-positive organ donationWith advances in medicine, its time to stop resuscitating out-of-date laws.
March 25, 2013
LTCI prompt-pay bills advance in Washington stateBoth the Senate bill, S.B. 5216, and a House companion, H.B. 1441, passed with unanimous votes.
March 25, 2013
Connecticut committees OK LTCI rate billsOne would require disclosures. Another would let the public comment on increase requests.
March 25, 2013
LTCI prompt-pay bills advance in Washington stateBoth the Senate bill, S.B. 5216, and a House companion, H.B. 1441, passed with unanimous votes.
March 25, 2013
Retiree benefits costs push California city into bankruptcyAll retirees get health insurance for themselves and a dependent for life.